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Hellenic Navy lighthouse tender HS Karavogiannos, A-479. THV Galatea, a lighthouse tender operated by Trinity House. A lighthouse tender is a ship specifically designed to maintain, support, or tend to lighthouses or lightvessels, providing supplies, fuel, mail, and transportation. The work is often carried out by ships which also act as buoy ...
Light Vessel 72 (also known by its identification number LV72) was a light vessel of Trinity House, a British lighthouse authority.Constructed in Sunderland in 1903 she served as a navigational beacon in the British Isles until the Second World War.
Light Vessel 93 (sometimes known as Lightship 93) was a lightship of Trinity House in England, currently used as a photography studio. She was built in Dartmouth, Devon, in 1938 and served on stations including Galloper sand bank, the River Thames, Goodwin Sands, Inner Dowsing, Sunk Sands and Foxtrot 3.
This is the second Trinity House vessel named Galatea. The first, a paddle yacht built in 1868, served Trinity House until 1895. She was named in honour of HMS Galatea which had recently completed a round-the-world voyage under the command of Queen Victoria's second son, Captain the Duke of Edinburgh, who was Master of Trinity House at the time.
Grace Darling was born on 24 November 1815 at her grandfather's house in Northumberland. She was the seventh of nine children (four brothers and four sisters) born to William and Thomasin Darling, and when only a few weeks old, she was taken to live on Brownsman Island, one of the Farne Islands , in a small cottage attached to the lighthouse.
She was built by Philip and Son at Dartmouth, Devon, in 1939 for Trinity House, the body responsible for provision of maritime navigation aids in England and Wales. Light Vessel 95 served at Goodwin Sands, The Wash, Varne Bank and at the Sevenstones Station. She was among the last ten light vessels in Trinity House service and was converted to ...
Trinity House, London (2007) A meeting at Trinity House c. 1808 The Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond, [3] also known as Trinity House (and formally as The Master, Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent), is the official authority for ...
The initial lightvessel was provided by Trinity House. [67] Outer Dowsing 18 Sep 1925: Armstrong Whitworth 1009: Outer Dowsing: Good Intent 1813: North West: South Rock North Carr 1933: A. & J. Inglis 921: North Carr (from 1933 until 1975) 1975: Operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board